Teacher Reprimanded Over a Bible Verse (05.11.23)

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Plain Bible Teaching Podcast

This week I’m joined by Kristofer Gardana, and we’re talking about a public school teacher who was reprimanded for including a Bible verse in her email signature. This is another example showing how our society is becoming more hostile toward God and His word. As this happens, there will be more places where Christians simply are no longer welcome. We’re going to discuss this in our episode today.

STORY – Loudoun County Public Schools Bans Teacher from Adding Bible Verse to Email Signature

“Virginia’s Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) system has reportedly banned an unidentified teacher from adding a bible verse to her email signature.

“The teacher was barred from putting John 3:16 in her email signature, one of the most widely known bible verses that reads, ‘For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.’

“The teacher is receiving help from the law firm Liberty Counsel, which noted that LCPS’s policy allows teachers to personalize their signature blocks with ‘personally-selected pronouns, quotations, pictures or phrases that are intended to express the teachers’ personal views on a variety of subjects, and that are attributable to the teachers, and not necessarily to LCPS.’

“After LCPS banned the teacher from including the Bible verse in her signature block, Richard L. Mast and Hugh C. Phillips of Liberty Counsel sent a letter to LCPS Acting Superintendent Daniel Smith on March 23 demanding the teacher be allowed ‘to restore the Bible verse to her email signature block.’

“‘The directive from LCPS to [the teacher] to remove an expression of her personal faith from her email signature block, based solely on its perceived religious nature, constitutes religious discrimination,’ Mast and Phillips wrote.” (Breitbart)